After the entertainment at the banquet, Zhu Hongyu could not enter the bridal chamber, but turned around and went to the military camp.
The military camp was also celebrating the opening ceremony of the military government and Zhu Hongyu's marriage.
Zhu Hongyu naturally had to go there and have fun with the soldiers!
In Zhu Hongyu's eyes, military morale is no small matter!
His authority comes from his absolute control over the army. At any time, the only thing Zhu Hongyu cares about most is how to stabilize the morale of the army.
…
When Zhu Hongyu returned to his residence from the military camp, it was completely dark.
When he returned to his wedding room, Li Lingxiu was sitting by the bed with her head covered.
After hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Li Lingxiu felt nervous and unconsciously stirred the hem of her clothes with her hands.
Zhu Hongyu sat down at the table, took a sip of tea, and said.
"Lingxiu, if you try harder, your wedding dress will be ripped apart by yourself!"
Li Lingxiu subconsciously let go of her small hands and let out a soft scream.
Zhu Hongyu smiled, feeling amused, stood up from the table, strode to the bed, and gently lifted his bride's hijab.
The bright red wedding dress made Li Lingxiu's face look extremely charming and cute.
My skin, which was originally dark, has become a lot whiter due to the pampering during this period.
A pair of big eyes sparkled, full of shyness.
The rouge on her lips now looks extremely delicate.
Zhu Hongyu remembered a wisecrack and said.
"Madam, can you please let me eat the rouge on your lips?"
When Li Lingxiu heard this, a trace of panic appeared on her pretty face, and she was a little at a loss.
Zhu Hongyu laughed loudly, and in Li Lingxiu's panicked eyes, he held up her face...
The two hugged each other tightly, and after a long time their lips parted. Zhu Hongyu licked the corners of his mouth and said.
"The rouge on my lady's lips is so sweet!"
As Zhu Hongyu said this, he took off his outer robe and pressed Li Lingxiu on the couch. The two looked at each other.
"Turn out the lights, please turn out the lights?"
Li Lingxiu thought of the embarrassing things her mother told her before she got married, and spoke in a weak voice.
Zhu Hongyu didn't answer, and the curtains on the bed were lowered.
Then, there was a rustling sound and Li Lingxiu's sweet call from behind the curtain.
"do not do that……"
"Don't be afraid, it won't hurt!"
"..."
The two of them were ridiculous for a long time, and finally the clouds cleared up.
Zhu Hongyu lay next to Li Lingxiu, gently smelling the fragrance of her hair.
The blush on Li Lingxiu's face was still there, her nose was slightly flaring, and her consciousness was still a little drowsy.
Due to the benefits of being a time traveler, Zhu Hongyu's physique is surprisingly good, and he was able to improve himself in just a short time.
But as soon as he made a move, Li Lingxiu begged for mercy in a drowsy voice.
"Brother Hongyu, I don't want you anymore. Go to sleep! Go to sleep!"
Zhu Hongyu's movements stagnated, he just felt the restlessness in his body and scratched his head in distress.
I’ve never experienced it before, and it’s barely bearable.
After all, the entire military government matter is on his shoulders, so how can he have so much time to think about all these things?
But now, the young man has tasted the clouds and rain for the first time, how can he still restrain himself?
I'm afraid I won't have to sleep tonight!
Li Lingxiu opened her eyes and saw Zhu Hongyu's fiery eyes, but felt panicked in her heart.
Suddenly, Li Lingxiu seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and spoke.
"Brother Hongyu, don't just torment me, there's also Kaya!"
"Today is also her wedding, you can't let her stay alone in the empty room!"
"Kaya is still waiting for you, go to her quickly!"
Zhu Hongyu said.
"I do not go!"
"On your wedding day, I want to be with you. Although I accept Kaya, in my eyes, she can't be better than you!"
Li Lingxiu's face turned red with embarrassment, she pushed Zhu Hongyu and said.
"Go to Kaya's side quickly, you're not joking, I won't be angry!"
"real?"
"Really! Go quickly!"
"Okay, Lingxiu, please rest for now. I will come back to accompany you later!"
"..."
After saying this, Zhu Hongyu kissed Li Lingxiu's lips again, then left the wedding room and went to the next door.
If we say that the tenderness Zhu Hongyu felt in Li Lingxiu's place was as tender as water.
Well, on Kaya's side, Zhu Hongyu could only say that his original guess was right, this little wild girl was really a waste of money!
If it weren't for Kaya who was also a novice, Zhu Hongyu suspected that he might have been defeated!
…
Zhu Hongyu's benefits as a time traveler are not fake. His physique is very good. Not only does he recover from injuries faster than others, but he also recovers his physical strength quickly.
The absurdity of last night could not prevent him from going to work full of energy the next day!
Zhu Hongyu summoned Liu Tongwen, the head of the education department, in his study.
"Grand Governor, the recruitment examination has been prepared and can start at any time!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded and said.
"That's good!"
"The military government has just been established, the administrative framework has just been set up, and there are many vacancies for officials. The importance of holding this exam successfully is no less than a great victory on the battlefield."
Liu Tongwen spoke again.
"It's just that for this military government recruitment examination, there are several deaf-mute applicants among the applicants."
"I don't know what to do. What is the Governor's suggestion?"
Zhu Hongyu pondered for a while and said.
"Since you have signed up, the normal reference is! If you pass the exam, you will be awarded the officer normally."
"The military government recruits officials only based on their talents, and the rest is not important!"
Liu Tongwen said with his fists clasped.
"I understand!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and said.
"Let's make arrangements as soon as possible. Every branch of the military government is short of officials!"
"This matter cannot be delayed!"
Liu Tongwen said with his fists clasped.
"I understand!"
When Liu Tongwen exited the study, Zhu Hongyu remembered what had been reported to the weapons workshop.
He rubbed his brows and gave instructions.
"Send the order, prepare to go to the weapons workshop!"
"Arrange a meeting between the Governor and Sanchez tomorrow!"
Zhu Hongyu still has a lot of things going on.
Various things come one after another every day, making him feel overwhelmed.
…
Zhu Hongyu left the military government's office, took his guards and went straight to the weapons workshop.
The reason why he made this trip was because the weapons workshop reported that the special field artillery proposed by Zhu Hongyu had been cast.
Zhu Hongyu wanted to inspect it in person to verify the performance of the gun.
In two or three months at most, another large-scale decisive battle will break out between the Liberation Army and the Spaniards.
The Liberation Army cannot afford to be defeated, and Zhu Hongyu cannot afford to be defeated either!
In order to ensure an absolute victory, Zhu Hongyu must do his best to add strength to the Liberation Army.
In addition to constantly recruiting troops and expanding the size of the Liberation Army, we have to think of ways to deal with weapons!
In order to save time and energy, Zhu Hongyu directly found several weapons from his memory that might change the situation of the battle!
The weapons workshop reported this time and achieved a breakthrough. Zhu Hongyu came up with the artillery design plan and they made the product.
Of course Zhu Hongyu has to check it out for himself!
This field artillery design was actually a drawing that Zhu Hongyu copied from the Napoleon cannon design.
Since history has proven that the Napoleon cannon has excellent performance and is indeed very useful, Zhu Hongyu copied it directly.
No special effort was put into designing a front-loading smoothbore cannon!
Of course, the Napoleon cannon here does not refer to the big Napoleon cannon that fires twelve-pound shells, but the small Napoleon cannon that fires six-pound shells.
To put it bluntly, it is a specialized field light artillery.
Perfect for the Liberation Army!
The gun is equipped with a gun carriage, which is flexible and has a special design that can adjust the firing range up and down.
It has a fast rate of fire and fierce firepower, and can fire a variety of shells such as solid bullets, shotgun shells, and explosive shells.
The only drawback is that it’s expensive!
The gun body is made of copper, and copper is a precious metal, so the cost is certainly not low.
However, Zhu Hongyu is in Luzon now. Luzon is a place that lacks nothing but copper.
As soon as the Liberation Army negotiated with the Spanish, Zhu Hongyu gave an order to the weapons workshop to develop the Napoleon cannon.
Now that there is finally a result, Zhu Hongyu is very pleased!
Compared with other artillery of this era, the performance of the Napoleon gun is absolutely crushing.
At least before the advent of cast iron cannons and rifled cannons, few artillery pieces could surpass the performance of Napoleon cannons.
…
Zhu Hongyu arrived at the weapons workshop not far from Ling Jiayan, and Old Liu Tou personally led people to greet him outside.
Although Old Liu Tou was appointed as the chief of the Industrial Section, he still stayed in the weapons workshop to work.
Because, under the current military government, the only thing that has anything to do with industry is this weapons workshop.
Zhu Hongyu came up and patted Lao Liutou on the shoulder and said.
"Thanks for your hard work!"
Old Liu Tou said with a moved face.
"It's not hard for my subordinates!"
"For the sake of the military government and the governor, this is what we should do!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded and said.
"Take me to see how the cannon casting is doing?"
Old Liu Tou nodded in agreement and led the way. Zhu Hongyu led others to follow.
Not long after, the group arrived at the cannon-casting factory.
In the factory, the craftsmen are busy working in full swing.
In the center of the factory building, there is a short-barreled field artillery. The barrel is made of bronze. The attached gun carriage can adjust the range of fire up, down, left and right.
Old Liu Tou introduced from the side.
"Grand Governor, this cannon body weighs seven hundred kilograms. If it comes with the cannon carriage, the weight will reach one thousand kilograms!"
“It’s difficult to transport in mountainous areas, but it’s perfect for use in flat plains!”
The gun carriage weighs a thousand kilograms, which sounds exaggerated.
But when converted into kilograms, it’s actually only 500 kilograms, or half a ton.
Although there are some changes in transportation, it is not insurmountable.
Where the roads are difficult to walk, you can still walk with more people carrying you!
Zhu Hongyu nodded with satisfaction, and Old Liu Tou then introduced.
"If this gun fires solid shells, its effective range can reach 500 meters. Even shotgun shells can have an effective range of 300 meters."
"If operated by a skilled gunner, the rate of fire can even reach one round per minute!"
Although this kind of performance is still lagging behind the real Napoleon six-pounder field gun.
But in this era, it is already considered the best field artillery, bar none!
Zhu Hongyu nodded with satisfaction, and then asked.
"How is the research on the sand film casting method going?"
The cannon casting method currently used by the Liberation Army is the iron film cannon casting method, although the production speed is fast.
This greatly shortened the time required to develop the artillery power of the Liberation Army from scratch.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the cast artillery has a short lifespan and is heavy.
More importantly, the iron film casting method cannot cast heavy artillery, but can only cast some short-barreled field guns or light cannons.
In order to solve this problem, the weapons workshop of the Liberation Army prepared the mud film required for the traditional cannon casting method while testing new cannon casting methods.
The new cannon casting method was also developed by Zhu Hongyu!
Originally, Zhu Hongyu wanted the weapons workshop to study the Rodman cannon casting method, which is the inner membrane water-cooled cannon casting method. This advanced cannon casting method was only invented during the American Civil War.
However, Zhu Hongyu discovered that without a thermometer, Rodman's cannon casting method was not practical at all!
He could only settle for the next best thing and asked people to study the sand film casting method.
Compared with the sand film casting method, the mud film casting method and the lost wax method, the biggest advantage is that the sand film dries quickly.
It takes at least half a year for the mud film to dry in the sun, but it only takes more than a month for the sand film.
Cannon casting speed is greatly accelerated!
And in terms of quality, the quality of the cannons cast by sand film cannons is no worse than that of mud film cannons.
Even the quality is even better due to the breathability of the sand film!
You should know that this method of casting cannons was used by the British until the second half of the 18th century and was gradually phased out.
Old Liu Tou said.
"Report to the Grand Governor!"
"The sand film cannon casting method has already produced results. This bronze field cannon was cast by the sand film cannon casting method."
"Maybe it's because the cannon casting material is copper, but the performance of the cannons cast by the sand mold casting method is indeed far superior to that of the iron film casting method."
Zhu Hongyu nodded and said.
"Speed up the production of this type of artillery. The decisive battle between our Liberation Army and the Spaniards will begin in two or three months at most."
"Every additional artillery piece increases the chance of victory!"
Old Liu nodded in agreement.
"How is the development of other weapons going? Do you have any ideas?"
Zhu Hongyu asked again.
Old Liu Tou said.
"For the new weapons proposed by the Grand Governor, the weapons workshop has already begun to develop them!"
"The rifled gun has already been developed, but rifling the musket is a delicate job that can only be done by hand by skilled masters."
“It’s difficult to make rifling tools, and there aren’t many skilled craftsmen who can rifling, so mass production is impossible.”
Before there were industrial machine tools such as boring machines and milling machines, rifling was indeed a technical job!
It can only be made by hand by skilled craftsmen!
Although the weapons workshop is already developing machine tools.
However, due to the fine machining and the fact that hydraulic animal power is not a steam engine, it cannot provide a stable power source for machine tools.
Therefore, the machine tool still belongs to the lifetime series!
Old Liu Tou then spoke.
"Three samples have been made so far. However, after testing, we found that although the range and accuracy of rifled guns are indeed far superior to smoothbore guns, the rate of fire is too slow."
An ordinary musket, if it is an elite veteran, can fire at a rate of two to three rounds per minute!
But for a rifled gun, in order to allow the lead bullet to bite the rifling, the diameter of the lead bullet is larger than the diameter of the muzzle, and the loading speed will be very slow.
The rate of fire even reaches one shot every two to three minutes!
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly. He had a solution on how to increase the rate of fire of the rifled gun.
It’s nothing more than mini bombs!
However, making mini bullets can be very troublesome. A small amount of mini bullets are easy to produce and the technical requirements are not high.
It's nothing more than a cone-shaped bullet with a cork at the bottom.
How difficult can it be to make?
Although mini bombs are simple to manufacture, mass production is difficult!
At least compared to the manufacture of ordinary lead bullets, the manufacture of minion bullets is much more troublesome.
To make ordinary lead bullets, you only need to melt lead metal into lead water, and then drip it from a high place like water.
The lead water will turn into a round shape on its own due to surface tension, and then drop into the cold water to cool and form.
Then the craftsman only needs to do some simple screening and polishing before it can be used.
But mini bombs...
Thinking about this, Zhu Hongyu suddenly thought that he really couldn't manufacture rifled guns on a large scale to equip the army.
However, he can equip elite soldiers on a small scale!
It is also very practical to use as a black gun on the battlefield and to snipe enemy generals.
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongyu told Lao Liutou the idea of mini bombs, and then gave instructions.
"The Governor knows that rifled guns cannot be mass-produced, so let's not require mass production for the time being. Let's make ten of them and use them on the battlefield, whether they are used as black guns or to snipe enemy generals."
Lao Liutou nodded in agreement.
Zhu Hongyu motioned for him to continue.
"Also, the research and development of wooden handle grenades has produced results, and we are setting up a production line to prepare for mass production."
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly.
"What about the research on rockets and new gunpowder? Do you have any plans?"
Old Liu Tou thought for a while and then said.
"We have already conducted research in accordance with the direction given by the general."
"The finished product of the rocket has been made, and attempts to mass-produce it have begun."
"Smokeless gunpowder has also been developed. A few days ago, the gunpowder factory produced a small amount for testing. The power is very impressive."
"But the stability of smokeless gunpowder is really poor, it is very dangerous to use, and it is temporarily unable to be mass-produced!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded with satisfaction, but still spoke.
"Production of rockets must be accelerated!"
"There is no rush in the research and development of gunpowder. Just take your time. As I said before, safety first!"
Zhu Hongyu saw everything he wanted to see in the weapons workshop and left the weapons workshop with satisfaction.
Before leaving, he deliberately explained to Lao Liutou.
"I dare to say that the arsenal of our Liberation Army is the most technologically advanced arsenal in the world."
"That's why we need to do a good job in keeping technology confidential and doing counter-intelligence work!"
"Don't be careless!"
"I will arrange for the Jinyi Guards to conduct screenings of the weapons workshop from time to time."
"The weapons workshop is related to the rise, fall and development of our Liberation Army. We cannot attach too much importance to it. As the person in charge of the weapons workshop, you must be even more careful."
Old Liu Tou said with a look of fear on his face.
"My subordinates understand! How dare you not do your best?!"
Zhu Hongyu seemed to see Old Liu Tou's fear, patted him on the shoulder and spoke to comfort him.
"Don't be afraid. Jinyiwei's screening is not for you, but for those spies. I still trust you!"
"You are an old man who has been with me since you first entered the mountain. During this period of time, you have been doing your best for the development of the military government. Even during this period, you have been living, eating and drinking in the workshop. This general does not believe it.
Who else can you trust?"
Hearing this, Old Liu Tou looked moved and couldn't help but express his loyalty to Zhu Hongyu.
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